Day in the Life of a Student Nurse in the South Eastern Health Trust

Transcript

00:00 Hi, my name is Genevieve Kibreigh. I'm a student nurse with Queen's University Belfast and

00:07 welcome to a day in the life of a student nurse. Firstly, I get to the hospital about

00:11 7 o'clock in the morning and here's me just walking in to listen to handover. First, I

00:18 did some clinical observations, then I had a bit of a break, then I did some blood glucose

00:22 monitoring. After this, I took a patient up to renal for dialysis. Then I returned to

00:28 the ward and obtained some blood samples from some of the patients. After this, I then prepared

00:36 some IVs alongside my mentor. There were some patients on the ward requiring some IV antibiotics,

00:44 so here we are just preparing that. Firstly, I mix up the antibiotic with some water and

00:53 then I then inject it into a saline bag. Then I just spike the bag and that's me just priming

01:11 the line and this should be then ready to administer to the patient. After this then,

01:17 I got some lunch, then after that I got the opportunity to go round to theatres with one

01:22 of the patients on the ward to watch gallbladder being removed. So that's me just throwing

01:27 out my scrubs. I then returned to the ward to do some clinical observations. Then there

01:31 was a patient on the ward requiring an iron infusion, so here I am just preparing that

01:36 with my mentor. Firstly, I draw the iron solution up into a syringe. Then I insert it into a

01:44 sodium chloride bag. Then here's me just priming the line which will then be ready to administer

02:00 to the patient. Following this, I then logged my hours on my night pad and that was me just

02:12 going home ready to do it all again tomorrow.

02:15 (upbeat music)